Category «Education»

USGS Releases First-Ever Comprehensive Geologic Map of the Moon

USGS: “For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, in collaboration with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute. The lunar map, called the “Unified Geologic Map of the Moon,” will serve as the definitive blueprint of the moon’s surface geology for future human missions and will be invaluable for the international scientific community, educators …

Subjects: E-Government, Education

How our favorite pastimes will change in post COVID-19 world

Morning Consult Analysis – “The coronavirus outbreak has separated many Americans from their typical pastimes, relegating people to their homes during any free time they may have. With this, certain pastimes are seeing new life. But how likely is it that consumers will continue to enjoy these pastimes post-pandemic, and which ones are just temporary …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Food and Nutrition, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media, Transportation

Searching Covid-19 Finding Patterns in Our Need for Knowledge

This project is sponsored by Schema, Google Trends, and Axios: “In late 2019 a novel coronavirus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Over the following months, the regional outbreak exploded into a devastating global crisis with unsettling levels of uncertainty. How does the virus spread? How will we pay the bills? What will happen …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

White House is reviewing detailed guidance for gradual reopening

Washington Post – “…The guidance under review, drafted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is considerably more detailed. Changes could be made, but the guidance is likely to be released within the next seven days, officials said. The 17-page guidance lists recommendations for each of six settings. It says all decisions should be …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care

Georgia Copyright Loss at High Court Could Jolt Many States

Bloomberg Law: “Georgia lost a close U.S. Supreme Court case over the state’s ability to copyright its annotated legal code, in a ruling heralded by public access advocates over dissent that lamented its disruptive impact on states’ existing business arrangements. Copyright protection doesn’t extend to annotations in the state’s official annotated code, Chief Justice John …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Copyright, Courts, Education, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Legal Research

The Virus vs The Virus A Trump Twitter Timeline, Self Praise, and American Medicine in Crisis

Dave Pell: “Here’s a look at what the President of the United States was Tweeting as America’s Covid-19 body count continued to mount. The below examples are not exhaustive. But they are certainly exhausting…” See also The New York Times – 260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus See also The New …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine, Social Media

Digitizing 18th Century Editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica

Center for Data Innovation: “The National Library of Scotland has released a dataset that digitizes the first eight editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which publishers issued between 1768 and 1860. The dataset contains over 155,000 image and XML file pairings and nearly 167 million words.” Get the data.

Subjects: Education, Libraries

A Non-Scientist’s Primer on Testing for COVID-19

Medium: “Broadly, there are two types of tests, doing two very different things in two different ways. There are others, also, but these are the two you’ll be doing, and hearing a lot about. There’s 1) diagnostic tests (sometimes called “tests”), and 2) serological tests (sometimes called “antibody tests.”) They’re easy to confuse if you’re …

Subjects: Education, Health Care

24 ways young people can learn digital skills at home

Berkman Klein Center – Skills for a Digital World: “If you or a young person you know is isolated in their digital world, why not use this time to understand it better? Want to take action effectively on COVID-19 safety or other societal issues? Want to get credit for the photos, music, or creative art …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Happy National Library Week!

“Here at the Internet Archive, we’re always ready to celebrate the important role that libraries play in our schools, communities, and larger society. This year, however, National Library Week comes during a tumultuous time, when thousands of physical libraries are closed or inaccessible… With schools closing around the world, many students have lost access to …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Free online course features COVID-19 insights from Johns Hopkins experts

JHU Hub: “Johns Hopkins University has launched a free online course for the general public about COVID-19 featuring experts from across the university—including those on the front lines of research and treatment—sharing the latest insights and evidence about the disease, its spread, and ways to stay healthy. Published on the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center …

Subjects: Education, Health Care

Adding the word “Covid-19” to the dictionary only took six weeks

Coronavirus and the New Words We Added to the Dictionary in March 2020 – “A dictionary’s mission is to give accurate information about the current vocabulary of a language. Providing precise definitions, usage information, dates, etymologies, and pronunciations takes time; typically, additions to our dictionary occur in large batches a few times each year as …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Libraries

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